I'd like to say that's been my experience. Granted, I'm in Philly.

Mine's twice what it would be if it had followed the inflation curve.

That dastardly woman!

Where The Fuck's My Penis?: The Senile Ravings of Rush Limbaugh

Almost as good as government cheese.

Oh, okay, I get you. And you're right - it wasn't a very concrete rebuttal to the whole "idiots misinterpret things" point. I suspect sometimes I'm just losing my patience for that sort of thing. In other words, I know those people exist, but more and more I'm disappointed that I know.

Listen, I'm having a very bad day to begin with, but… what?

"I'm not going to be this attractive forever. Hell, what if I get fat again? I gotta do this now."

As near as I can tell from talking to them, school socializing seems much the same - I don't get the sense that they're walking down the hallways with their heads in their phones. But yeah, otherwise that seems to be about the size of it: come home, get a snack, go to the room, jump on the phone/tablet.

Okay, that's fair. I'm just personally sick of doing it.

Forgive me. I thought it was "ex-baseball players who died surprisingly," not "ex-baseball players who died surprisingly who were on the '87 Twins."

Wow, no shit? Apparently Darren Daulton died last night, too.

I think that's wise.

It's probably going to come down to something just like that - a realization that this stuff is making me feel awful, and I probably shouldn't do it as much anymore. (And I feel like things like this, whatever dominates society at a certain point, tend to be at least a little cyclical, anyway.) But the fact of the…

I would submit that anyone who still feels like we aren't in virtually uncharted territory now is someone whose opinion can be dismissed. I can communicate with someone in space, if I know the proper address to do so, via the rectangle in my pocket.

Of course not. I think we should just maintain a little perspective. If someone were to say, for example, "People who are against war just want to see the hardworking bombmakers lose their jobs," is that really a stance worthy of a wider discussion? I'd suggest not.

I know. I was just trying to be tongue-in-cheek. Hope I didn't come off as a dick.

Oh, absolutely. It's just that a half-dozen obsessives on Twitter can turn something innocuous or irrelevant - to my eye, at least - into the latest scandal, and I think that's a little dangerous. (I also wouldn't mind a slight cultural recalibration of what we consider to be "power," to be honest, but that's a…

And was fervently anti-clay.

Ah, what a site that was.